Mexican Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican Lives write by Judith Adler Hellman. This book was released on 1995. Mexican Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A portrait of the Mexican experience illuminates such topics as NAFTA, political assassinations, the Chiapas rebellion, and national election fraud, and considers the impact of these events on the bordering United States. Reprint.
Undocumented Lives
Undocumented Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Undocumented Lives write by Ana Raquel Minian. This book was released on 2018-03-28. Undocumented Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist Winner of the David Montgomery Award Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award Winner of the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award Winner of the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize Winner of the Américo Paredes Book Award “A deeply humane book.” —Mae Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects “Necessary and timely...A valuable text to consider alongside the current fight for DACA, the border concentration camps, and the unending rhetoric dehumanizing Mexican migrants.” —PopMatters “A deep dive into the history of Mexican migration to and from the United States.” —PRI’s The World In the 1970s, the Mexican government decided to tackle rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions of Mexican men crossed into the United States to find work. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. They periodically returned to Mexico, living their lives in both countries. After 1986, however, US authorities disrupted this back-and-forth movement by strengthening border controls. Many Mexican men chose to remain in the United States permanently for fear of not being able to come back north if they returned to Mexico. For them, the United States became a jaula de oro—a cage of gold. Undocumented Lives tells the story of Mexican migrants who were compelled to bring their families across the border and raise a generation of undocumented children.
Mexican Americans and the Environment
Mexican Americans and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican Americans and the Environment write by Devon G. Peña. This book was released on 2022-09-13. Mexican Americans and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life—activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others—who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteño land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Peña contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.
The World of Mexican Migrants
The World of Mexican Migrants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World of Mexican Migrants write by Judith Adler Hellman. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The World of Mexican Migrants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A behind-the-headlines survey of the lives of Mexican migrants living in the United States evaluates the after-effects of radical economic and political shifts in the 1990s, in an account that features dramatic border-crossing stories and draws on the experiences of everyday laborers. Reprint.
Mexican New York
Mexican New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican New York write by Robert Smith. This book was released on 2006. Mexican New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Mexican New York' offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants & their children in New York & in Mexico.
